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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
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There was an excellent lecture on Tolkien's aphorisms at Oxonmoot this year; when we were asked for examples, the first that occurred to me was from the end of LotR:
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By the way, Tom Shippey also lectured on proverbs in Tolkien's works at "Tolkien 2005" in Birmingham. For those who would like to read his paper, it has been published both in the Tolkien 2005 Proceedings and in the collected essays of Shippey, Roots and Branches.
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